Good Nature Agro improves livelihoods with climate-resilient farming
Good Nature Agro (GNA) partners with smallholder farmers in Zambia and Malawi to improve their livelihoods through climate-resilient, soil-enriching legume farming and links to high-value markets. Tanzania-based EA Foods is revolutionising the agricultural value chain in sub-Saharan Africa. The company reduces post-harvest losses by directly sourcing from smallholder farmers and utilizing cold chain logistics for swift delivery to local markets. This approach enhances market access and economic opportunities while promoting sustainable food systems.
Boosting incomes with better seeds and market access
GNA addresses the challenges of smallholder farmers by providing market access, guaranteed sales, and essential resources such as seeds and fertilizers. Through training in business management and sustainable farming, GNA helps farmers transition to more profitable crops like legumes, increasing their earnings by 68% compared to traditional crops like maize. GNA’s support not only improves farmers’ incomes, but also enhances their livelihoods, enabling them to afford better resources and invest in their families’ futures.
Why Goodwell invested
By partnering with Good Nature Agro, we support a transformative approach that tackles the obstacles farmers face head- on. This investment not only enhances farmers’ livelihoods but also promotes sustainable farming practices and ensures better nutrition outcomes for communities. It underscores our commitment to fostering inclusive growth and resilience in agriculture.
Zambia, Katondo, Eastern Province. Neri Daka (38) is a Good Nature Agro farmer. Has five children, 4-20. Husband is also a farmer. Grows soybeans, cotton, maize. Successful enough to move up from mud thatched hut to brick house. Sending children to school, bought two goats ($15 each). Wants to buy an oxcart ($400), bedding for children, TV. Women earn about $3 a day farming, about $80 a month, she uses womens village banking to save. Working in her soybean field with her PEA.
Recent achievements and future ambitions
GNA continues to prioritise the needs of their partner farmers, but they’re also building new paths for their future. To bring more high-earning crops into rotation, they’recurrently piloting onion production. Their unique in-house farmer engagement app is further solidifying relationships between GNA and their partners, with plans to engage 20,000 farmers on this deeper level and create 1,300 digital soil health maps this year.
How high-quality legumes improve Zambian livelihoods
“We provide key input such as seeds where we do everything from breeding through scale-up production and sales as well as tailored financial support, training to help them achieve optimal yields and we are the off-take market at the end of the year.”
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